New product:
iTV - UltraHD 3860x1920 (4K), High fidelity audio, excellent speakers surround sound, 3D No glasses?, Transparent? Ultra thin, IGZO display and made in beautiful Liquid metal. Controlled by iPhone,iPad or iPod and SIRI. Lets you subscribe to individual TV Channels, every show stored in iCloud as well as your channels subscriptions. Also possible to stream any of those TV channels to any IOS device. Stream 4K movies through iTunes. User based content configuration through biometric fingerprint. You press your finger on IOS7 device TV app, and it will display that users channels, shows, etc automatically.

iWatch (doubtful): Beautiful waterproof liquid metal design, Biometric authentication to iCloud and all other Apple services. SIRI+ control and features. Phone,Facetime,iMessage, etc. This will not be a gadget type of watch, but more a elegant stylish think Omega type watch.

OSX 10.9 now with biometric scanner. New major releases of iWork,iLife, Logic and Aperture.

iPad "5" now as thin as ipad mini using IGZO retina display - same battery time as current iPad. Faster processor. Biometric scanner for authentication. No more pin code. Different user finger equals different apps,music,photos,customization.

Macbook Air now with retina display & biometric scanner. Slightly thinner due to IGZO display.

Mac Pro in a much smaller form factor, beautiful liquidmetal made case. Expansion through improved thunderbolt for additional GFX/Audio cards/disks.
Be sure to hook it up to your iTV for an awesome 4K display.

And last but not least, 2013 revenue will end up at $201b with EPS at $69.

Thatīs my prediction, and I look forward to re-reading it and laugh in 2014!

New product:
iTV - UltraHD 3860x1920 (4K), High fidelity audio, excellent speakers surround sound, 3D No glasses?, Transparent? Ultra thin, IGZO display and made in beautiful Liquid metal. Controlled by iPhone,iPad or iPod and SIRI. Lets you subscribe to individual TV Channels, every show stored in iCloud as well as your channels subscriptions. Also possible to stream any of those TV channels to any IOS device. Stream 4K movies through iTunes. User based content configuration through biometric fingerprint. You press your finger on IOS7 device TV app, and it will display that users channels, shows, etc automatically.

iWatch (doubtful): Beautiful waterproof liquid metal design, Biometric authentication to iCloud and all other Apple services. SIRI+ control and features. Phone,Facetime,iMessage, etc. This will not be a gadget type of watch, but more a elegant stylish think Omega type watch.

OSX 10.9 now with biometric scanner. New major releases of iWork,iLife, Logic and Aperture.

iPad "5" now as thin as ipad mini using IGZO retina display - same battery time as current iPad. Faster processor. Biometric scanner for authentication. No more pin code. Different user finger equals different apps,music,photos,customization.

Macbook Air now with retina display & biometric scanner. Slightly thinner due to IGZO display.

Mac Pro in a much smaller form factor, beautiful liquidmetal made case. Expansion through improved thunderbolt for additional GFX/Audio cards/disks.
Be sure to hook it up to your iTV for an awesome 4K display.

And last but not least, 2013 revenue will end up at $201b with EPS at $69.

Thatīs my prediction, and I look forward to re-reading it and laugh in 2014!

Something is released/updated. Some people are cranky about it; other people are thrilled. That's my prediction.

__________________The rising People, hot and out of breath,
Roared round the palace: "Liberty or death!"
"If death will do," the King said, "let me reign;
You'll have, I'm sure, no reason to complain."

MacPro gets discontinued. The move is justified by Apple management who will state that soon enough an iPad 7 will offer roughly the level level of performance as current MacPro.

Or maybe not?

I doubt that would happen. Professional users still need the power you get out of the Mac Pro. Until the iPad is able to run Final Cut Pro, Adobe CS6 and whatever other heavy software pros use then there is no chance of it being discontinued. Anyway isn't the MP due an update this year?

Wouldn't that just be an Xserve? While I'm all for a Mac Pro redesign, what would be the reason to make them stackable unless you were to use them as servers/storage? It would essentially be an Xserve.

__________________I use OS X because of Windows. And I use Android because of iOS.

MacPro gets discontinued. The move is justified by Apple management who will state that soon enough an iPad 7 will offer roughly the level level of performance as current MacPro.

Or maybe not?

The Mac Pro is dead. As a longtime tower user, the rMBP finally got me out of that game. Apple surprised me with the rMBP- did not see that coming, brilliant machine. For most pro users, the rMBP killed the tower, and I'm OK with that.

I was about to walk away from Apple as a professional user. Well, as always, they had something up their sleeve. They always look to the future.

I used to be a desktop/laptop guy, now I get both in one computer. Bravo, Apple.

The Mac Pro is dead. As a longtime tower user, the rMBP finally got me out of that game. Apple surprised me with the rMBP- did not see that coming, brilliant machine. For most pro users, the rMBP killed the tower, and I'm OK with that.

I was about to walk away from Apple as a professional user. Well, as always, they had something up their sleeve. They always look to the future.

I used to be a desktop/laptop guy, now I get both in one computer. Bravo, Apple.

I also enjoy my rMBP, which is more than powerful enough for my use. However, I don't know if the guys who do have media development work would also find the machine on par with a MacPro.

The Mac Pro is dead. As a longtime tower user, the rMBP finally got me out of that game. Apple surprised me with the rMBP- did not see that coming, brilliant machine. For most pro users, the rMBP killed the tower, and I'm OK with that.

I was about to walk away from Apple as a professional user. Well, as always, they had something up their sleeve. They always look to the future.

I used to be a desktop/laptop guy, now I get both in one computer. Bravo, Apple.

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Originally Posted by Jaro65

I also enjoy my rMBP, which is more than powerful enough for my use. However, I don't know if the guys who do have media development work would also find the machine on par with a MacPro.

I would love to replace all that real estate and clutter for a tower sitting on the floor under my desk.

I think IKEA sells small shelf-units that ride on casters and will easily fit under desks. It doesn't seem like it'd be that difficult to put one HD on each shelf, and connect the TB cable to them while they sit under the desk.

My desk has a full-width shelf unit that sits about a foot below the main work surface. It's about a foot deep, and the back edge aligns with the back of the work surface, so it's not in the way of my lefs. I used to keep several SCSI disk drives there, but now it's so easy to get huge amounts of storage in much smaller spaces, that I only use that shelf to store infrequently used reference manuals. My feet aren't as warm, but the room is quieter.

A friend of mine keeps a PC tower cabinet with all his disks under his desk. Seems ordinary except it's just a tower cabinet with disks; there's no PC in it at all.

When I compared the two next to each other with similar specs, the rMBP won. You don't have to take my word for it. Go try it out.

Given the fact that the current setup is what, almost 4yo I don't question your experience at all - but am unsure what you mean with similar specs. 4-core and xGB of ram? Because about everything inside the rMBP is new technology compared to the MP.

I was just curious, since I had exactly the same thought as you, and will most likely get the next revision rMBP (and have a real good look at the MP section as well). But honestly, I'd be afraid of hardware failures due to heat dissipation doing heavy work on such a thin machine over a constant period of time. Especially if it would be the only machine I could work on.